You can reindex Spotlight through System Preferences by selecting your hard drive in the Privacy tab and then deselecting it. Did that make sense? Sorry, it's really hot here at the moment and I think my brain has melted.

You can reindex Spotlight through System Preferences by selecting your hard drive in the Privacy tab and then deselecting it. Did that make sense? Sorry, it's really hot here at the moment and I think my brain has melted.

The easiest way is to just add the drive you want to reindex to the "privacy" list, which deletes the existing index, then remove it, which will rebuild it.

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Sorry, that's what I was trying to get at. It's in System Preferences (the Spotlight section). Just click on the Privacy tab and then add your hard drive using the little plus button. Close the System Preferences, open them again and follow the same procedure but this time remove the hard drive from your Privacy list using the little minus button.

Sorry, that's what I was trying to get at. It's in System Preferences (the Spotlight section). Just click on the Privacy tab and then add your hard drive using the little plus button. Close the System Preferences, open them again and follow the same procedure but this time remove the hard drive from your Privacy list using the little minus button.

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